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new science paper describes in detail landing on a jagged spinning comet with little gravity is absurdly hard and it didn t help that two out of three of philae s landing systems failed but even this bumpy landing has importance for asteroid mining companies eager to excavate small bodies in space potentially proving that their business is not as much like science fiction as it sounds the extremely low gravity of near earth asteroids is after all both a challenge and their primary advantage in space travel getting to space is expensive because of the massive amounts of fuel needed to escape earth s relatively mighty gravity if asteroids can be mined for water which can be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel they could become depots for spaceships traveling into deep space no return trip to earth necessary to refuel and a relatively inexpensive liftoff after the pit stop is over it s not so much you are landing on the comet as you are docking with it says chris lewicki president and chief engineer of the asteroid mining company planetary resources planetary resources and its competitors such as deep space industries are still developing equipment to scout for valuable asteroids actually mining one is far off but the rosetta mission proves that landing on a small body and getting back physical and chemical data to assess its mining value is very much possible even when things don t go perfectly today s issue of science includes seven papers from the rosetta team detailing everything from the comet s rock structures to organic molecules the hardness of the comet surface will be a key piece of knowledge for future small body landings prior to landing scientists didn t know whether to expect a snow like surface in which philae might sink or a hard icy one on which it might bounce comets and asteroids are both small bodies with asteroids generally rockier and comets icier however the line between the two has blurred with the discovery of bodies like wilson harrington a comet that lost its tail turned black and was then rediscovered as asteroids we proved that bouncing is the major problem though we didn t want to do that says philae landing manager stephan ulamec alluding to the botched landing much more there written by randy mcdonald july 31 2015 at 10 45 pm posted in economics science tagged with asteroids economics futurology links space science link fort folly first nation attempts to bring back mi kmaq language cbc s lindsay michael reports on an effort by a new brunswick mi kmaq group to revive their ancestral language a month long course designed to teach young mi kmaq their native language wraps up thursday brianna hunter has been taking the course from mi kmaq elder gilbert sewell for eight years when we come in we don t have any knowledge at all because no one of my immediate family really speaks mi kmaq said hunter the 19 year old daughter of fort folly chief rebecca knockwood but now you can catch what he s saying and you understand it a lot more and we try to teach the younger kids the language too sewell is an elder storyteller and mi kmaq language instructor from pabineau first nation and has been teaching the course every july for 15 years along with teaching the young mi kmaq the language he tries to teach them about their culture as well what i do is teach the children about native folklore and legends and medicinal plants and what to eat in the woods if you are lost a lot of things i learned from my grandfather when i was young written by randy mcdonald july 31 2015 at 10 43 pm posted in canada popular culture tagged with atlantic canada canada first nations language links mi kmaq new brunswick link porter passenger says she was asked to move for another passenger s religious accommodation the extent of the misogyny described by the toronto star s holly honderich developed to the point that the man in question refused to talk to the woman whose existence offended him staggers me if these people have such problems with being near women should they perhaps not book their tickets accordingly a passenger aboard a porter flight on monday said that she was asked to change seats to accommodate another passenger who she says would not sit beside a woman for religious reasons christine flynn executive chef for iq food co in toronto s financial district said that she was buckled in her seat awaiting takeoff on a flight from newark back home to toronto when a man wearing traditional orthodox jewish garb walked down the aisle to his assigned seat beside her looking bewildered flynn said that the man swivelled around to the gentleman across the aisle and just said change without acknowledging her porter spokesperson brad cicero confirmed that flynn was asked by an airline attendant if she would be willing to move but would not say the reason the request was made cicero also maintained she was not ever put in the position of being told to move if this man had made eye contact with me if he said i m very sorry but because of my religion i m forbidden i would have absolutely moved i would have had no problem with that but to not be included in the conversation to take away my words and my right to choose this is the 21st century she said written by randy mcdonald july 31 2015 at 10 39 pm posted in popular culture tagged with clash of ideologies feminism gender judaism links religion travel link the ekos poll vote splitting in ontario boosting conservative hopes ipolitics ca s frank graves reports the vote intention numbers show the ndp with a clear but modest lead of 34 points the conservatives at 30 points and the liberals still in contact but significantly back at 23 points the bloc québécois s honeymoon period following the return of gilles duceppe seems to be drawing to a close the party is falling back to its pre duceppe levels the green party has also been receding in recent weeks in ontario all three parties seem to be converging into a tie the ndp are doing quite well in saskatchewan and although this finding should be interpreted with caution due to the extremely small sample size in the province the longer term trends suggest that the party has indeed gained ground here in recent months the liberals have clearly lost their lead with the university educated but our data on second choices suggests the party is still very much in contention with this group if you re thomas mulcair and the ndp what s not to like the new democrats are the clear leaders in most recent polling mulcair has an approval advantage over the other party leaders his team is being seen more and more as the agent of change and it has a pretty balanced regional and demographic constituency the key challenges for the ndp are threefold first it must hang on to those promiscuous progressive voters who have been swinging back and forth between the liberal and ndp camps since 2011 second it must withstand the added critical attention that comes with being the frontrunner finally it must convince voters that they should consider the ndp the better bet to replace the harper government this last point is vitally important as it plays into conservative strategy the conservatives consistent focus on justin trudeau and the liberals as their primary rivals their repeated attempts to paint trudeau as callow marginally competent and unready for power isn t based on lousy polling and probably doesn t emerge from mere spite the true motive may have been to hobble trudeau so badly that the ballot question shifts from a choice between a coalition and harper to a choice between the untested new democrats and the conservatives more including charts at the site written by randy mcdonald july 31 2015 at 10 38 pm posted in canada politics tagged with canada democracy elections links ontario politics link half of canadian voters back ndp liberal coalition poll shows the toronto star s donovan vincent reports on the popularity of the idea of a ndp liberal coalition i quite like it myself if the liberal party opts to reject it let the consequences fall on it more than two thirds of liberal and ndp supporters favour the idea of the parties forming a coalition in the event of a conservative minority in the oct 19 election according to a new poll by forum research of liberal supporters surveyed 68 per cent support a coalition while 75 per cent of ndpers favour the idea about half of all canadian voters the two opposition parties have spent the last week dancing around the coalition question but it appears their supporters especially the new democrats have no such qualms they re ready to get hitched as soon as a minority conservative government is elected if that happens said forum research president lorne bozinoff support for a coalition was strongest among young people surveyed 57 per cent of those between the ages of 18 and 34 favour the idea the new democrats have said publicly they are open to the idea of a coalition but liberal leader justin trudeau has poured cold water on the notion another poll by forum research this week tracking voter intentions at this point in time has the conservatives and ndp tied at 33 per cent support and the liberals at 25 per cent written by randy mcdonald july 31 2015 at 10 24 pm posted in canada politics tagged with canada democracy elections liberal party links ndp politics blog some friday links blogto notes that you can now larp at casa loma centauri dreams notes the odd reddish marks on the surface of saturn s moon tethys crooked timber takes issue with david frum s misrepresentation of an article on mediterranean migration the dragon s gaze notes the discovery of the aurora of a nearby brown dwarf the dragon s tales notes evidence of carbonation on the martian surface and suggests the presence of anomalous amounts of mercury on earth associated with mass extinctions geocurrents maps the terrifying strength of california s drought language hat notes that cockney is disappearing from london language log notes coded word usage on the chinese internet marginal revolution links to a paper examining the effects of hunting male lions the map room links to new maps of ceres and pluto the planetary society blog examines the dawn probe s mapping orbits of ceres progressive download traces the migration of the aloe plants over time from arabia savage minds notes how hacktivists are being treated as terrorists window on eurasia notes how the ukrainian war is leading to the spread of heavy weapons in russia looks at russian opposition to a crimean tatar conference in turkey suggests that the west is letting ukraine fight a limited war in donbas and looks at the falling russian birthrate written by randy mcdonald july 31 2015 at 7 35 pm posted in assorted demographics economics history politics popular culture science social sciences toronto urban note tagged with africa astronomy blogs borders brown dwarfs california casa loma cats ceres china clash of ideologies computers crimean tatars dawn demographics diasporas disasters earth english language environment evolution former soviet union games internet journalism links london mars migration pluto russia space science space travel terrorism toronto turkey ukraine united kingdom united states war writing photo bilbo at rest for the next week or thereabouts i will be dofsitting for friends in forest hill bilbo is a good good dog written by randy mcdonald july 31 2015 at 4 24 pm posted in photo toronto tagged with dogs forest hill photos toronto photo rosedale through the window written by randy mcdonald july 30 2015 at 3 58 pm posted in photo toronto tagged with photos rosedale subway toronto ttc brief note on the anonymous threat to reveal the secrets of john baird earlier this year conservative mp and cabinet minister john baird resigned from politics this news came as a surprise to everyone though in retrospect it may have marked the beginning of the trend of prominent conservatives leaving before the election as reported by the national post s adrian humphreys anonymous is threatening to reveal the secret reasons for baird s departure hackers with anonymous who last week leaked a seemingly legitimate secret document on cyber security at canada s spy agency threatened wednesday to release decrypted text messages from former foreign affairs minister john baird allegedly showing the real reason why he abruptly left politics the warning was made in social media from an account the national post confirms is one that has been operated by activists responsible for the csis leak no evidence was presented by the hacktivists to support the claim the month after leaving he was hired as an international advisor to barrick gold corp and nominated to the board of directors of canadian pacific railway ltd in may he joined law firm bennett jones llp as a senior adviser at the time when opposition critics questioned his quick moves he said he consulted the ethics commissioner before accepting his new roles and got the green light the twitter account opanondown named in honour of its claimed mission of seeking justice for an anonymous protester shot and killed by the rcmp during a confrontation in dawson creek b c said text messages and a video are pending for release on this subject there was speculation at the time see enzo dimatteo in now toronto for instance the only secret about baird that i myself am familiar with is the fact that he is gay this has been public record at least since 2010 openly discussed in the lgbt press if only alluded to in the mainstream media there has been some loose speculation that it is not so much his orientation as his choice of partners and what he does with them that might be a problem see the comments of that dimatteo article i m not aware of any rumours in this regard will we actually find out something is this just fuss i wonder written by randy mcdonald july 30 2015 at 2 26 am posted in canada politics popular culture tagged 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